Disable Hyper-Threading is one of suggested solutions for solving audio drop-outs.
As long as disabling something (Hyper-Threading) can help eliminate some causes for a problem (audio drop-outs), this means that disabling that something could most likely be beneficial in general, unless there is a serious reason not to be disabled.
On the other hand:
- This forum is full of audio drop-outs. I don’t know if some (or many) of them are (or not) relating to Hyper-Threading. I haven’t seen Roon’s suggestion of this solution in any of the posts related to this topic (maybe because it doesn’t apply to Roon in any case).
- All audiophile operating systems (whether Windows or Linux based) provide clear instructions for disabling multiple BIOS features (either unnecessary or negatively impacting sound quality). The ones in the “Tweaking the computer” section are about universally valid for all of these operating systems. Roon ROCK lacks these instructions (the ones in the help are not related to the sound quality, but only to the boot order, etc.). For Roon ROCK users (even Roon users), such instructions would be much appreciated.
Roon needs Hyper-Threading? It is good or bad to disable this feature? We (users) don’t know this, and this is why we are asking you about it.
Here is an example: just try to enable / disable HPET (High Precision Event Timers) on any audio PC (including Roon ROCK) and check the result. And this is just one of multiple BIOS settings affecting sound quality…
P.S.: See also Intel NUC recommended BIOS settings.